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PRO BONO HOURS
| |
No. Attorneys |
Total Pro Bono Hours |
No. Attorneys Performing < 20 Hours
|
Average Pro Bono Hours Per Lawyer |
Hours Count Toward Billable Hours? |
| FIRM |
2000 |
2001 |
2000 |
2001 |
2000 |
2001 |
2000 |
2001 |
|
| Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld |
949 |
889 |
25,418 |
39,250 |
212 |
200 |
26.8 |
44.2 |
yes |
| Baker Botts |
584 |
547 |
11,000 |
8,062 |
86 |
80 |
18.8 |
14.7 |
yes |
| Beirne, Maynard & Parsons |
70 |
60 |
704 |
354 |
10 |
10 |
10.1 |
5.9 |
yes |
| Bracewell & Patterson |
350 |
300 |
2,593 |
1,884 |
40 |
26 |
7.4 |
6.3 |
yes |
| Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison* |
90 |
83 |
3,000 |
1,536 |
35 |
18 |
33.3 |
18.5 |
yes |
| Brown McCarroll |
146 |
117 |
2,554 |
1,350 |
27 |
14 |
17.5 |
11.5 |
yes |
| Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal |
82 |
85 |
n/a |
n/a |
22 |
15 |
n/a |
n/a |
no |
| Fulbright & Jaworski |
740 |
760 |
22,178 |
20,070 |
148 |
125 |
30.0 |
26.4 |
yes |
| Gardere Wynne Sewell |
266 |
264 |
3,448 |
2,639 |
48 |
35 |
13.0 |
10.0 |
yes, with limitations |
| Haynes and Boone |
373 |
346 |
4,100 |
3,600 |
59 |
31 |
11.0 |
10.4 |
no |
| Howrey Simon Arnold & White* |
67 |
59 |
2,754 |
3,084 |
20 |
14 |
41.1 |
52.3 |
yes |
| Hughes & Luce |
160 |
160 |
7,452 |
6,623 |
43 |
45 |
46.6 |
41.4 |
yes |
| Jenkens & Gilchrist |
589 |
474 |
4,265 |
4,500 |
51 |
n/a |
7.2 |
9.5 |
on case by case basis |
| Locke Liddell & Sapp |
360 |
360 |
5,317 |
4,993 |
77 |
57 |
14.8 |
13.9 |
no |
| Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr |
85 |
82 |
n/a |
n/a |
25 |
25 |
n/a |
n/a |
no |
| Strasburger & Price |
195 |
194 |
12,156 |
11,996 |
41 |
35 |
62.3 |
61.8 |
no |
| Thompson & Knight |
300 |
287 |
3,190 |
2,600 |
43 |
39 |
10.6 |
9.1 |
yes, up to 20 hours |
| Vinson & Elkins |
777 |
690 |
37,252 |
33,116 |
307 |
269 |
47.9 |
48.0 |
yes |
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges* |
95 |
92 |
778 |
1,818 |
13 |
18 |
8.19 |
19.8 |
yes |
| Winstead Sechrest & Minick |
268 |
233 |
2,215 |
2,048 |
27 |
20 |
8.3 |
8.8 |
yes, in most cases |
| Note: Some firms either don't keep track of pro bono hours or don't report them, including Andrews & Kurth, Jackson Walker, Kelly, Hart & Hallman, Susman Godfrey, and Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. |
| * Texas offices only. |
| (Texas Lawyer, June 2002) |
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